Avadutha Gita

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The Avadutha Gita is an ancient and excellent Hindu

Text explaining the nature of the soul (Atman). Some

extracts :

 

1.4 Verily the one Self is all, free from

differentiation and non-differentiation. Neither can

it be said, it is nor it is not. What a great mystery.

 

 

1.12 Know Atman to be one, ever the same, changeless.

How can you say: I am the meditator, and this is the

object of meditation? How can perfection be divided?

 

1.22 The sages call Atman the ever-same. By giving up

attachment the mind sees neither duality nor unity.

 

1.24 Birthless, pure, bodiless, equable, imperishable

Atman that know yourself to be. How then can you say:

I know Atman, or I know not the Atman ?

 

1.34. Some there are that prize non-dualism, others

hold to dualism. They know not the Truth, which is

above both.

 

2.1 Hold not the immature, the credulous, the foolish,

the slow, the layman and the fallen to have nothing

good in them. They all teach something. Learn from

them. Surely we do not give up a game although we have

mastered it?

 

2.28. There is neither unity nor duality in Atman, nor

unity-duality, neither smallness nor greatness,

neither emptiness nor fullness. All these exist in the

mind, and the mind is not Atman.

 

2.29. The teacher cannot teach Atman; the disciple

cannot learn it.

 

3.8. The knowledge of the Self, hard to obtain, which

is experienced, is not Atman; The object of

meditation, hard to concentrate upon, is not Atman.

 

3.11 Atman is not the Knower Nor is It the known. It

is not accessible to inference. Words cannot describe.

 

3.17. The saying of the Shruti,not this, not this,

does not apply to Atman. How can it be said when all

is subtracted Atman alone remains? It is symbolical

but not a symbol; Yet even this cannot be said of

Atman.

 

4.18 I have told you, O disciple, the essence of

Truth. There is no you nor I, no world, no Guru, or

disciple.

 

4.21 Renounce, renounce the world, and also renounce

renunciation, and even give up the absence of

renunciation.

 

6.7 The statement that Atman is describable or

indescribable cannot stand. Neither is It the knower

nor the known. It cannot be imagined or defined.

 

6.19 In It there is no you and no I, therefore family

and caste exist not therein. It is neither true nor

untrue.

 

6.33 The wise man strives not for anything, not even

for Dharma or liberation. He is free from all actions

and movements, and also from desire and renunciation.

 

7.17. All you lovers of wisdom, protect your minds

from feelings of pleasure, and engage them in

spiritual wisdom.

 

7.18. This is the song of the great Dattatreya

Avadhut. Those who read it and hear it with respectful

attention, they are not reborn on this earth.

 

 

 

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